Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

In when when speaking, citizens must speak from the podium. Begin by stating their name and address or sing single member district number and limit their remarks to 3 minutes or less. Any public comment? There being none. Going to the regular agenda. Item number three. Comments regarding items on regular agenda may be made by the public when each item is discussed as outlined above. To participate, please sign it. What is that? Repeat it with pretty much no.

Okay. To participate, please sign in prior to the beginning of the meeting. Speakers will be called in order they signed in. Comments limited less than 3 minutes. Applicants, proponents, and appellets are exempt from the time limit above and instead must limit their remarks to less than 5 minutes. None. None. Good. uh a nomination election to board chair and vice chair for the two 2026 count calendar year and your chairman is distinguished chairman right the way don't believe me he just asked me right is rolling off and so I'd like to make a motion for a new chairman to sit in your chair okay

uh would be Lyndon Roberts Glendo okay I have a motion to I'm voting on this too, right? Okay. Have a motion. Do I have Do I hear a second? I second that. Okay, we have a motion in a second. Let's Any discussion or we go to the vote? And the nominee, you can like if you don't want to serve, you don't have to serve, but you better speak or forever hold your peace. So, don't listen to him. I I will speak and not hold my peace. And I will be honored to do that. Thank you.

Fine. Replacement. All right. Any other any other nominees or That's it. All right. Have a motion in a second. Go to the vote. Am I Am I correct here, Brandon? Go to vote. All right. Let's go to the vote. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? There being none, it passes 6. Do I get to vote? 5. Okay. Yes. I did you vote? You didn't say no. I just said I I just did not vote. You voted when you said you would take it. So yeah. Okay. Number two's. All right. So election for vice chair

rolloff. Oh I got to do vice chair, right? Mhm. And I don't do that. No, she's the Oh, she's the chair now. [laughter] Yeah. Y'all didn't give me that notice. So, election for vice chair. Um, but I can't make a nominee, can I? As the chairperson. Okay. So, I open it up to an election for the vice chair. I nominate Terry Jackson if you would like it. Can I second? I second. I can't. Brandon told me I could.

Richard. Richard did. We together second. [laughter] So all in favor of Terry being the vice president say I. I. I. Any opposed? 6 5 6 0. Okay. Okay. Oh, you are a turd nugget. [panting] That was kind of unexpected. Rules. Yeah. Well, I wasn't. Okay.

Okay. We'll go on to the next agenda, which is considering approval of the November 7th zoning board of adjustments meeting minutes. Do does anyone have any questions or can I get a vote? Motion to motion to approve. Second. All in favor? Say I. I.

Any opposed? Minutes pass 6. You're really throwing me for a loop. Going on to the next agenda item. Item number C, ZBA25-251902 South Randolph. A request for approval of three variances from section 501A for a 22 foot setback in lie of the required 25 ft a 30 13 ft setback and the second frontage in lie of a required 25 ft and 15 foot rear setback in lie of the required 20 ft for a new home at 1902 South Randolph within the single family residential zoning district.

Thank you Austin Reed, senior planner. This one comes to you out of the Rio Vista neighborhood. It is district number three, Harry Thomas' district. The zoning for this lot is RS1. Division plan holds it as neighborhood and the subject area is about.121 acres. Um, as you mentioned, what we have today is a request for approval of a 13T front setback that will be on West Avenue O, a 22t front setback on South Randolph, and then a 15t rear setback. We did send notice on this. Uh, we mailed 27. As far as I'm aware, we did not receive any responses one way or the other. So, here's a look at the concept plan they provided. Um, you can see the 13T uh front setback request there on the left towards that West Avenue O. Um, the bottom of the picture will be the probably the front of the house where it's 22 ft and then the 15t rear variance to the um top of the picture. So, on to our analysis. this property um right now, of course, it is a vacant lot and it is within the city's designated infill area. We've seen a few of those recently. Um it's just above minimum lot size, measuring about 50 ft by 105 ft and it is considered a true double frontage lot which we know can severely limit development in some places. We do think there's more more than adequate amount of rideway on both frontages. There's about 15 ft um between the property line and the curb on Avenue O and about 20 ft on. So we think there's plenty of room there. And then finally allowing the space to be maximized through variance is within the public interest as it promotes residential development and that infill that we talked about. So with that you are recommending approval. Um do you guys have any questions? The applicant let me know that they would not be able to be here today but um they should be watching online.

Does anyone have any questions? So sorry I'm completely new at this. Does anyone have any questions on the board? None. So, I'm gonna Oh, can you go back to that first slide, please? Thank you. Oh, that one. Thank you.

Okay. I make a motion to approve as presented. Second. So, I have a motion by Terry and a second. Second. Yeah. So, I have a question. Was that 19 the 1912 address, was that in front of this board a couple years ago? Um, I'm not aware. I did want to say real quick, I don't think we open it for public comment. Nobody signed up. But if you wanted to open it and close it. Oh, that's for you. Sorry. [laughter] I'm a newbie. So, do I close open it? I open public comment.

Caught me off guard today. Soon as there's no more close public comment. If there's not any more comment for public comment, then I'll close public comment and we'll open up to discussion on the board. Ask your question again. I didn't answer. I think you answered it, didn't you? 1912 didn't was that on a variance a few years ago. There were some issues with it. It's the reason I asked that came to came to light. It wasn't. Okay. I don't remember one. I'm not sure if anyone else does. Yeah, that rideway through there is uh what 20 25 ft rideway. [snorts] I think it's recognized. Okay.

Any more discussion from the board? Do I have a motion? I make a motion to accept as presented. I second it. So, I have a motion from Terry, a second from Richard. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? The motion passes 6. So, we'll move on to the division report if that's all. Um, the only thing we really have, we did hire a new planning tech. His name is Daniel. He's sitting there in the back. Hi, Daniel. We're very excited to have him here. Welcome to the cool kids club.

That's all we had. Wow, that was a quick division report on my first You're welcome. All right. So, next uh we'll follow up on administrative issues.

So, I did just want to make the board aware that we do have some committees going on right now for um new residential zoned area and we are looking at the um land subdivision um ordinance. And so we will be coming forward to at least let you know some of the things that we are taking to council uh to try to get changed. We are trying to make a smaller lot size um or different setbacks especially in this infill area. Uh we want to look at double frontages that type of stuff. Uh, so I think Aaron has plans on at least giving you guys a small presentation of some of this stuff hopefully next month. If not, then the in March just to let you guys know because you do see a lot of variances, especially on double frontages and in these infill areas. Uh, so we're hoping to create a a specific residential zone that will help with some of these.

So, how many committees? Two. We have two. We have one that is the residential committee and then we have one that's the land development subdivision ordinance. How many is on the committees? Um maybe 10 10 each. 10 each. And when do they plan to bring that to the city council? Well, we are going to discuss it tomorrow um to just kind of say this is where we're looking at and get feedback. Um, but I think we are going to present a red line, like a draft version in March to city council. Okay.

So, are you talking about new development and it wouldn't be applicable to the current zoning that that we're seeing the little piece here, the the little lot here, the little lot there? So it would be they would be eligible to reszone instead of coming for a variance. If the if the new zone we create covers to where they don't need a variance, they are eligible to reszone to that. So they could reszone one lot in the middle of a different zone. Is that what you're saying? Well, because it's residential to residential, it is just a like a higher level lower level of residential. Um, it is not considered spot zoning. Okay. Okay.

So, just want to make sure you guys aware. Thank you, Ray. Do we have any other questions for Ray or anyone on the city? Okay. Well, that concludes our meeting. Um, if I need a motion for an adjournment, make a motion to adjurnn. Second. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? All right.